Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 08/31/2007(USA
Release Date: 08/19/2008
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Flags: Brief Nudity, Not For Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Can a young man win the hand of the girl of his dreams by convincing her that he prefers the company of men? That's the dilemma facing the protagonist of this independent
comedy.
Clay (
Sam Huntington) was a big man on his high-school campus, but he discovers he's just another nobody when he starts his first year of college, and while he expected to be making time with lots of pretty coeds, most of the girls on campus could care less about him. As
Clay hopes to improve his social status by rushing a fraternity after his dorm roommate unexpectedly dies,
Amanda (
Kaitlin Doubleday), another incoming freshman, is similarly hoping to join a sorority, and as part of her initiation she and the other pledges are each instructed to pick up a certain type of "loser" guy for a party where the boys will be humiliated as part of the evening's entertainment.
Amanda is supposed to find a guy who is obviously gay, and her friend
Jessica (
Heather Matarazzo) mistakenly thinks
Clay fits the bill. It doesn't take long for
Clay to realize what's going on, but he decides to play along if it means going out with a pretty girl, and he gives himself a crash course in gay behavior in hopes of winning
Amanda's heart with some help from amiable queer bartender
Rodney (
John Goodman). Produced under the title
Home of Phobia,
Freshman Orientation was the first feature film from writer and director
Ryan Shiraki.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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